The Nursery
We have finally put up most of the decorations in Miles' nursery. I (Allison) have been fanatically planning since day one: exactly what I wanted it to look like, creating the little pieces to go up on the walls, and doing everything with a fairly non-existent budget. Drew's co-workers had to laugh at how early I made him take me to get all the essentials to make sure we were ready "just in case." Because of this, I tried to be patient with the hanging of non-essential decorations.
Friday afternoon we headed to the nursery to decide where everything would go on the wall. As I pointed out where things would go Drew immediately looked concerned. "Nothing can go above the crib," he said frantically. As two of the four walls are above the crib I was immediately upset. Drew researched the topic and found that many people recommend putting nothing above the crib in case of an earthquake. Utah is prone to earthquakes and although they don't happen often it isn't out of the question that we experience a sizeable one. The solution ended up being moving all furniture and relocating the wall hangings. We have some awesome soft fabric wall hangings that Drew's mom found, which will go up a little later this week.
The most interesting part of this whole experience was what Drew and I were able to learn about eachother as parents before Miles even arrives. Drew is already such a caring, protective father. He thinks so much about the things that he wants for Miles and like he proved when we designed the nursery he was so careful about his son's safety.
Check out the decorating we having done so far:
